Category Archives: Attribution

Geothermal ocean warming discussion thread

Posted on July 21, 2019 by | 86 comments

by Judith Curry

“The atmosphere bias of climate science makes it impossible for them to see geological forces and therefore, impossible for them to understand the earth’s climate.” – Thongchai

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Extremes

Posted on June 13, 2019 by

by Judith Curry Politics versus science in attributing extreme weather events to manmade global warming.

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Critique of the new Santer et al. (2019) paper

Posted on March 1, 2019 by | 124 comments

by Ross McKitrick

Ben Santer et al. have a new paper out in Nature Climate Change arguing that with 40 years of satellite data available they can detect the anthropogenic influence in the mid-troposphere at a 5-sigma level of confidence. This, they point out, is the “gold standard” of proof in particle physics, even invoking for comparison the Higgs boson discovery in their Supplementary information.

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Early 20th century global warming

Posted on January 23, 2019 by | 377 comments

by Judith Curry

A careful look at the early 20th century global warming, which is almost as large as the warming since 1950.  Until we can explain the early 20th century warming, I have little confidence IPCC and NCA4 attribution statements regarding the cause of the recent warming.

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Beyond Milankovitch

Posted on September 8, 2018 by | 375 comments

by Donald Rapp

On the terminations of Ice Ages.

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Fundamental disagreement about climate change

Posted on May 30, 2018 by | 703 comments

by Judith Curry

How can the fundamental disagreement about the causes of climate change be most effectively communicated?

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Sea level rise acceleration (or not). Part V: detection & attribution

Posted on March 21, 2018 by | 134 comments

by Judith Curry

In looking for causes, I have applied the ‘Sherlock Holmes procedure’ of eliminating one suspect after another. The procedure has left us without any good suspect. Thermal expansion was the candidate of choice at the time of the first IPCC review. The computed steric rise is too little, too late, and too linear. – Walter Munk

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